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KCRG : New Inexpensive Flood Sensors Keep Watch on Iowa’s Waterways | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa N

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:05:08 +0000

even with these sensors - the bottom line is it will do notihing to prevent flood damage, and do nothing for flood control. talk about useless! here's a flowchart folks: if you get a lot of snow up stream - it has to melt, and guess where it is going to go? you guessed it - right down the river, the ground can only soak up so much. Heavy rain to the North? where's it going to go? yep! . oh, that will be $3500 please....

KCRG : New Inexpensive Flood Sensors Keep Watch on Iowa’s Waterways | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa N

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:59:32 +0000

even when people downriver get early warning (think cedar rapids - 2008), they don't bother to get the books out of the library (that one row of sandbags sure helped though), or bother to get out of the water's way. CR knew it was coming and still did next to nothing!

KCRG : New Inexpensive Flood Sensors Keep Watch on Iowa’s Waterways | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa N

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:57:57 +0000

i thought the same thing. these sensors do NOTHING to prevent flood damage, flood control, etc. pet rock is right! these sensors do nothing more than tell you what can be clearly observed... "hey, the sensor says the water is rising, what do we do?" - the same thing that everyone else that lives along the river that doesn't have a sensor - get out of the way. man, did someone see you guys coming!

KCRG : Lake Delhi FEMA Appeal Denied by Regional Office | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and W

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:25:42 +0000

amen! if they just had insurance..... they could rebuild their dam.... leson learned: BUY INSURANCE!

KCRG : Lake Delhi FEMA Appeal Denied by Regional Office | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and W

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:20:33 +0000

can't disa.gree there. how those rascals on the city council were not reca.lled i will never know. by failure of the VOTER to ACT when they saw this hijac.king, they are as guilty as the ones voting to let PCI close streets, using tax money to buy hotels, etc.

KCRG : Lake Delhi FEMA Appeal Denied by Regional Office | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and W

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:18:24 +0000

nice article here: http://www.wmtradio.com/pages/bbre.html?page=4 i don't think anyone has shown conclusive proof one way or the other if this is public or private. bottom line: the taxpayers cannot af.ford to rebuild this lake. you want it rebuilt, YOU do it. next time i might suggest BUYING INSURANCE and partic.ipating in FEMA's insurance program. you have a lot of land to fix up down river after YO.UR DAM (by your own admission) gave way and brought devestation downriver. until you secure private money or loans to rebuild it AND par.ticipate in the flood insurance program - keep your lips puckered.

KCRG : UI Student Calls $735 Fine for Underage Bar Goers Excessive | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sp

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:55:41 +0000

i wonder how many soldiers under 21 were killed in the invasion of Normandy - at the time Germany was a country that was of no threat to us either.... interesting.

KCRG : UI Student Calls $735 Fine for Underage Bar Goers Excessive | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sp

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:54:04 +0000

when i grew up in Iowa, the law was changed to 19. i remember the outcry and the same old worn-out arguments. I was 17 at the time. It didn't matter to me really, because i had access to beer at home if i wanted one. before someone thinks my parents were bad for 'allowing' this, i never had the urge to go out to some high school 'kegger', or go party, because the 'taboo' was gone and it wasn't approached as 'evil' in our house. that's beside the point. I liked 19 for the age. MANY high school kids turn 18 in high school, but not as many turn 19 in high school. I'll agree with another poster though... the level of maturity between one who is 18 and 21 is staggering sometimes. but even those numbers adon't say much. i have met many in their mid 20's that didn't know how to put a sheet on their beds, let alone make informed decisions on alcohol!

KCRG : UI Student Calls $735 Fine for Underage Bar Goers Excessive | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sp

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:50:02 +0000

old argument. won't work. for the record, i agree with you. If you are mature enough to join the military, then you are mature enough for a beer. but having retired from the military, i have met many 19 or 20 year olds that shouldn't be in the service, and in no way could handle a beer. the military takes under age drinking very seriously. it can - and does - cost people their careers. military members have to follow the rules of many 'governing bodies'...the constitution, the laws of the state where they live, the UCMJ, and the laws of the country they are in at the time. if they are stationed in Europe, then they are 'legal' to get booze at 18. Some base commanders give orders to the contrary, and if they are caught downtown having a beer under 21 - then they run the risk of discharge, even though they are 'legal'. i hear you, but you are singing to the choir on this one

KCRG : UI Student Calls $735 Fine for Underage Bar Goers Excessive | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sp

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:44:31 +0000

you point out just WHY community service (cleaning roadsides and stuff) WON'T work - they would be doing someone else's job.... some highly paid union job no less, and if the state can get people to do that job for 'free' versus paying some union guy $25 an hour...well, that would be a threat to his job and the state might think "wait a minute! why do we have employees on the payroll to do these jobs, when we can use law violators, jailhouse prisoners, inmates, etc - for free? cheaper to pay the guard with a gun to watch them, than pay 5 union guys to do the same thing". watch for it - you might start a trend...

KCRG : Sensory Simulation Helps Sixth Graders Understand, Experience Autism | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:32:32 +0000

my daughter has what we beleive to be asperger's. the doctors she has seen so far think she is just an 'aloof little girl'. but the symptoms are there, no mistake. there are areas where she is EXCEPTIONALLY bright, and others that, well....as long as she has her routine, she is good. but the constant reminding to do things that should be sceond nature... i feel for everyone that has to deal with this. we count our blessings that she is highly functional and won't (likley) have to live in group homes, etc.... but it is a daily ritual.

KCRG : Sensory Simulation Helps Sixth Graders Understand, Experience Autism | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:28:58 +0000

i still have yet to see data that supports vaccines giving autism to children.

KCRG : Sensory Simulation Helps Sixth Graders Understand, Experience Autism | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:27:55 +0000

why not donate all $8? $1.50 - how generous of them (and my brother in law has autism). but at least it is better than nothing

KCRG : Eagle Cam Views Increase as Hatch Nears | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather |

Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:25:28 +0000

it also happens when women decide that a baby is a nuisance and they no longer want to have it, so they pay some so-called doctor to ki.ll it and s.u.ck. the baby into a sink. that happens every day.

KCRG : Medal of Honor Recipient Says He\'s Average Soldier | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, an

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:31:54 +0000

30 days a year, and you can carry 30 days over. so anything above 60 days october 1 each year is gone. use or lose. i know they have changed the rules recently to allow a little more leave to be carried over. No i will profess, i do not know if a MOH awardee can 'retire' with 100% benefits for life, or if he is just merely not reenlisting when his time is up.

KCRG : Medal of Honor Recipient Says He\'s Average Soldier | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, an

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:30:05 +0000

given i was maybe all of 3 years old when Vietnam was taking place...no.

KCRG : Medal of Honor Recipient Says He\'s Average Soldier | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, an

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:29:02 +0000

i've been there, done that, retired spec ops from the air force, thank you. i have absolutely nothing against this young man. we all volunteered to be a part of a spec ops team, and we all do our jobs. no one goes into it for the glory, including this young man. the probability of being shot or killed in these career fields are much higher than that of a fry cook. i think i chose my words poorly. I have no problems with this hero. none. my problem is how the military is now parading him around as part of a PR campaign, and it clearly isn't necessary. all branches of the armed forces are having no trouble getting recruits to fill all the slots (despite what DADT people would have you beleive), so they don't need to take this young man away from his sworn duties and parade him about the country as if they were hurting for recruits. my guess would be, if you ask him, he'd rather go back to work.

KCRG : Authorities: Man Used Hidden Camera To Make Child Porn | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports,

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:22:12 +0000

and who can afford to front all that? let alone pay their bills...

KCRG : Fayette Co. Mom Arrested on Child Endangerment Charge | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports,

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:20:12 +0000

well then maybe we shold jsut get rid of the first amendment because we might hurt someone's "feelings". it's a cruel world.... myself, when it comes to criminal trials, i think all parties invovled should be given 'jane and john doe' ID's, and their picture should not be published, or any other information about them, until due process has run its course and they have been convicted in a court of law. how many times do we see a person's name being drug through the mud...then if they are found innocent, where do they go to get their reputation back?

KCRG : Lake Delhi FEMA Appeal Denied by Regional Office | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and W

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:12:42 +0000

private houses are (were) insured. the lake? no. that's right, the board of stoopid.visors didn't want to play by the rules, so turned FEMA insurance down, now want them to pay. boo hoo